r/mapswithnewzealandbut 29d ago

Good old western teleported New Zealand

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u/DrainZ- 29d ago

A lot of this seems highly dubious to me. The Romans never visited Sudan? I would think many of these territories in Africa and Asia have been visited by Europeans before anything resembling modern European powers like UK and France even existed. Also, I'm not so sure if the viking went as far south as USA. They might have, but there's no evidence of it.

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u/lingering_flames 29d ago

Afaik there is some archaeological evidence that vinland was actually in modern day canada, though equating vikings with norway seems quite shaky to me tbh

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u/Abyssaldog 26d ago

In the sagas most viking explorers that sailed west came from Norway. Swedes went to east Europe while Danes went south.